31973R1197

No L 122/ 14 9 . 5 . 73 Official Journal of the European Communities

REGULATION ( EEC) No 1197/73 OF THE COMMISSION of 8 May 1973 fixing the average producer prices for wine

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN Member States, and the alcoholic strength and quality COMMUNITIES , of table wines which have been the subject of transac­ tions ; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community ; Whereas arrangements for the notification by the Member States of quotations and information related Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No thereto are specified in Regulation (EEC) No 816/70 ( J ) of 28 April 1970 laying down additional 1020/70 ; whereas, where this information is not avail­ provisions for the common organization of the market able for any marketing centre, the average price for in wine as last amended by the Act (2) annexed to the the preceding week must be maintained ; Treaty (3 ) on the Accession of new Member States to the European Economic Community and the Euro­ Whereas the average price for the type of wine in pean Atomic Energy Community, signed at Brussels question must be fixed per degree/hi or per hi as on 22 January 1972, and in particular Article 4 ( 1 ) appropriate ; whereas, if the Tuesday is a public thereof ; holiday, the average price must be fixed on the following working day ; Whereas Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No 816/70 provides that an average producer price must be fixed Whereas it follows from applying these rules to the for each type of wine for which a guide price is fixed ; information at present available to the Commission whereas this average price must be fixed for each that the average price should be fixed as shown in the marketing centre for the type of wine in question on Annex to this Regulation ; the basis of all the facts available ;

Whereas the marketing centres for table wines are HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : determined in Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1020 /70 (4 ) of 29 May 1970 on recording quotations Article 1 and fixing average prices for table wines, as last amended by Regulation ( EEC) No 765/72 (5) ; The average prices referred to in Article 4 ( 1 ) of Regu­ lation (EEC) No 816/70 are hereby fixed as shown in Whereas Article 10 of Regulation ( EEC) No 1020/70 the Annex to this Regulation . provides that the average price must be fixed on the basis of the average of the quotations notified , parti­ Article 2 cular account being taken of the extent to which these quotations are representative, the comments of the This Regulation shall enter into force on 9 May 1973 .

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States .

Done at Brussels, 8 May 1973 .

For the Commission

The President

François-Xavier ORTOLI

(>) OJ No L 99, 5. 5. 1970 , p . 1 . (2) OJ No L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972, p . 14. (3) OJ No L 73 , 27 . 3 . 1972, p. 5 . (") OJ No L 118 , 1 . 6 . 1970 , p . 16 . (5 ) OJ No L 89, 15 . 4. 1972, p . 31 .

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ANNEX

Average prices for table wines at the various marketing centres

I u.a . per u.a . per Type degree/hi Type degree/hi

RI A I Béziers 1-980 Bordeaux No Montpellier No quotation ( l) quotation Nantes No Narbonne 2-025 quotation Nîmes No Bari No quotation quotation (') Perpignan No Cagliari No quotation quotation Asti 2-253 Chieti No Firenze 2-320 quotation Ravenna ( Lugo, Faenza ) 2-192 Lecce No quotation Trapani ( Alcamo) No Pescara 2-208 quotation Treviso No Reggio Emilia 1-920 quotation Treviso No quotation u.a./hl Verona (for local wines) 2-320 A lì

Rheinpfalz ( Oberhaardt) No R II quotation Bari 2-320 No Rheinhessen ( Hügelland ) Barletta No quotation quotation (') The wine-growing region of the No No Luxembourg Moselle quotation (*) Cagliari quotation Lecce No quotation Taranto No A III quotation u.a. / hl M OS :'! No R III quotation Rheinpfalz No Rheingau No quotation quotation Rheinhessen ( Hügelland ) No The wine-growing region of the No quotation Luxembourg Moselle quotation (')

(') Quotation not taken into account in accordance with Article 10 ( 1 ) of Regulation ( EEC ) No 1020/70 .